There are songs that are right for the moment. As our world seems to be in chaos, with sides forming and making people feel lost and unsure what to do, I found this song was powerful:
Lyrics:
“I got a front row seat to the madness
I pick up my phone every morning out of habit
I've been fiendin' for the drama
Yeah I said it
I'm addicted to the rush need a medic
When I take a step back I can see it
All the pain all the fear we've been feeling
Losing sight of the thing that we're needing
That we're needing
Honestly, I think we just need Jesus
Honestly, I think we just need Jesus
Have we all gone mad
Have we lost our minds
What used to be wrong
We say that it's right
Honestly, I think we just need Jesus
Take a good long look in the mirror
Search my heart and soul make it clearer
Help me take your love, trade the bitter
Leave it in the dust, help me leave it in the dust Lord
We've been preaching we've been drinking in the vanity
Now it's got us questioning our sanity
And we wonder how we get all this anxiety
It's clear to me
Honestly, I think we just need Jesus (Jesus)
Honestly, I think we just need Jesus (Jesus)
Have we all gone mad
Have we lost our minds
What used to be wrong
We say that it's right
Honestly, I think we just need Jesus
We turn away
We're running back to you
Covered in grace
God you can make us new
We turn away
We're running back to you
Covered in grace
God you can make us new
Honestly, we need we need you Jesus
( we need you Jesus)
Honestly, we need we need you Jesus
(We need you)
Have we all gone mad
Have we lost our minds
What used to be wrong
We say that it's right
Honestly we need we need you Jesus
Oh Jesus
Jesus
We need you Jesus
Oh
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
We're running back to you oh
Yeah
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
Make us new.”
Such a powerful reminder of what we all really need in the madness of this world. It draws from Paul’s words, “I count it all lost but knowing Christ,” (Philippians 3:8). That what we really do need is Jesus. Not a political slogan, not protests, and peculiar body art, we need The Prince of Peace Jesus!
I see a hunger in people, they are trying to fill it with outrage, with battles in the social spheres, but what will they do on e its achieved? The War in Palestine is poised to end, what will the masses do then? They’ll find a new bandwagon, a new outrage, for before it was Occupy Wallstreet and the 1%, then Climate, then Me Too, and so on and on. They cannot find rest because thwt are like those who wandered in the Wilderness, “ That is why the Holy Spirit says,
“Today when you hear his voice,
don’t harden your hearts
as Israel did when they rebelled,
when they tested me in the wilderness.
There your ancestors tested and tried my patience,
even though they saw my miracles for forty years.
So I was angry with them, and I said,
‘Their hearts always turn away from me.
They refuse to do what I tell them.’
So in my anger I took an oath:
‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God. You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ. Remember what it says:
“Today when you hear his voice,
don’t harden your hearts
as Israel did when they rebelled.”And who was it who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Wasn’t it the people Moses led out of Egypt? And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness? And to whom was God speaking when he took an oath that they would never enter his rest? Wasn’t it the people who disobeyed him? So we see that because of their unbelief they were not able to enter his rest.
Promised Rest for God’s People
God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God. For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said,
“In my anger I took an oath:
‘They will never enter my place of rest,’”
even though this rest has been ready since he made the world. We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all his work.” But in the other passage God said, “They will never enter my place of rest.”
So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted:
“Today when you hear his voice,
don’t harden your hearts.”
Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable.” (Hebrews 3:7-Hebrews 4:13)
The people today outraged are like grumbling people in wilderness who cannot enter God’a rest, because the answer to the rest is “Honestly, we need you Jesus!” for rest is only found in Him, “Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28). Amen.
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